Developers came from far-and-wide for the first edition of the GlobalHack competition — but, as it turns out, the winning team didn’t have to travel much at all. ...

A team called "The Force" took the top prize at GlobalHack's first hackathon, held this weekend at Union Station. ...

GlobalHack, an upcoming computer programming competition, is aimed at attracting some top coding talent to St. Louis for a weekend. It also will be helping a local company get off the ground. ...

Jim Eberlin, the founder of Gainsight (formerly JBara), will jump start his newest venture, TopOPPS by sponsoring the grand prize at GlobalHack 1, set to take place on January 31, 2014 through February 2, 2014 at Union Station in Downtown St. Louis, MO. ...

Jim Eberlin, the St. Louis-based serial entrepreneur, will use GlobalHack to help launch his new venture, Topopps. TopOPPS is Eberlin’s new startup that looks to use big data to analyze companies’ customer relationship management portals and forecast the likelihood of future sales. ...

Gabe Lozano says you can call it the “Super Bowl of Geeks.” ...

Jim Eberlin, the serial entrepreneur based out of St. Louis, is leaving Gainsight, the company he founded in 2009, to start a new company focused on using big data to predict sales forecasts for business-to-business companies. ...